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  • CURRICULUM REFORM IN PAKISTAN

    The Need for Integration and Appreciation of Diversity

    by Amna Afreen ...
    I have written this book in an effort to explore how the history of Pakistan has resulted in the critical problems weighing down its education system. The book examines the questions: Why and how has a small elite class come to rule Pakistan? And how has their rule worsened the country’s problems? The focus will be to critically examine the elements of the Pakistani national curriculum and ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD

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  • Islamic Exceptionalism

    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • What's Really Wrong with the Middle East

    by Brian Whitaker ...
    The problems in the Middle East run deeper than dictatorship. Inspired by the popular uprising that overthrew Tunisia's president, Arabs across the Middle East are demanding change. But achieving real freedom will involve more than the removal of a few dictators. Looking beyond the turmoil reported on our TV screens, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker examines the 'freedom deficit' that affects ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman

    Paths to Conversion

    by Anabel Inge ...
    The spread of Salafism--often referred to as "Wahhabism"--in the West has intrigued and alarmed observers since the attacks of 9/11. Many see it as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that condones the subjugation of women and fuels Jihadist extremism. This view depicts Salafi women as the hapless victims of a fanatical version of Islam. Yet in Britain, growing numbers of educated women- ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Son King

    Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

    by Madawi Al-Rasheed ...
    In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have proven divisive, and his adoption of populist nationalism and fierce repression of diverse critical voices--religious scholars, feminists and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza

    Engaging the Islamist Social Sector

    by Sara Roy ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    A revealing look at Islamic social institutions in Gaza and the West BankMany in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank during the critical period of the Oslo peace process, Hamas and ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Sectarianization

    Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

    Edited by Nader Hashemi, Danny Postel ...
    As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to 'ancient sectarian differences', putatively primordial forces that make violent conflict intractable. In media and policy discussions, sectarianism has come to possess trans-historical causal power. This book trenchantly ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Awakening of Muslim Democracy

    Religion, Modernity, and the State

    by Jocelyne Cesari ...
    Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey - countries that were founded by secular rulers and have since undergone secularized politics. Cesari argues that nation ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Apartheid in Palestine

    Hard Laws and Harder Experiences

    Edited by Ghada Ageel ...
    “Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most extreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza, where Ghada Ageel was one of the victims from childhood. This collection of essays is a poignant cry for justice, far too long delayed.” —Noam Chomsky There are more ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Women of the Midan

    The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries

    by Sherine Hafez ...
    An exploration of gender, the Arab Spring, and women's experiences of revolution, including firsthand accounts.In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures. Women's ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Islam Rising

    Muslim Extremism in the West

    by Quintan Wiktorowicz ...
    Although the West denounces the spread of radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, it tends to overlook the development of Islamic extremism in its own societies. Over the past several decades, groups like al-Qaeda have been supported by thousands of citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western democracies. Rejecting their national ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Muted Modernists

    The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

    by Madawi Al-Rasheed ...
    Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges this stereotype as she examines a long tradition of engaging with modernism that gathered momentum with the Arab uprisings and incurred the wrath of both the regime and its Wahhabi supporters. With this ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD